Essay # 2 Ideas (Raw Ideas)

Idea# 1: 
I am interested in the idea that Bigger is used as a representation of the black community and black men, even though he is really just a 20 year old man with issues handling his own cowardice. In order to do that I would have to find sources that make that claim and then critique them. My fear is that the paper would end up becoming more about the critique rather than about Bigger's character and Wright's writing.


Idea# 2:
I am fascinated with poetry from the Harlem renaissance. I did my blog presentation on Langston Hughes but i never got to touch on any of the authors we read and I would like to write about the themes in those writings and the way poetic language was so closely related to music at the time. Each of the three authors (Hughes, Cullen, Hurston) had different themes in their writing with different messages, but they all seemed to share that connection with musical structure. I am interested particularly in the critiques and ideas of literary scholars of their writings and would include those in my essay.